Election observers in Cambodia, 1998: What can we learn?

Government and Opposition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-89

  Brown, MacAlister ^a  

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EID: 0038998787     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-7053.00013     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Timothy C. Evered, 'United Nations Electoral Assistance and the Evolving Right to Democratic Governance', Monograph No. 15, The Center for UN Reform Education, Livingston, NJ, October, 1996, p. 16 cites 30 cases of non-self-governing territory election missions by the UN, and 50 electoral assistance missions by the UN as of December 1993 (p. 36). Namibia 1989 was a former trusteeship moving to independence, and South Africa 1994 elected a new government and ratified a new constitution. Indonesia, in June 1999 was monitored by NDI/The Carter Center.
2. Memorandum, International Republican Institute-National Democratic Institute, 'Terms of Reference for Cambodia Assessment Mission', 13 July 1998, p. 2.
3. A sober assessment of the experience of the National Election Commission of Cambodia in the 1998 election by Kassie Neou and Jeffrey C. Gallup, 'Field Report Conducting Cambodia's Elections', Journal of Democracy, April 1999, pp. 152-64, described 'an administrative triumph, political failure'. Despite their disappointment with the electoral process for resolving underlying political conflicts, they saw the election as a 'necessary stage in the country's democratic development', which had strengthened the civil society. Another assessment of the 1998 election experience, Asian Monitoring Network Conference was published by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1-2 October 1998. It included commentary from eight election-monitoring organizations in relation to various elements of their recent role and future obstacles, as well as opportunities such as a regional organization and commitment. In January 1999, the NDI and the International Republication Institute (IRI) published a detailed and documented volume entitled, The July 26, 1998 Cambodian National Assembly Elections, which called for a more cohesive international response to the climate of impurity still prevailing in Cambodia. The level of violence during the 1998 election was, thanks to the Khmer Rouge's passivity, lower than in 1993.
4. A sober assessment of the experience of the National Election Commission of Cambodia in the 1998 election by Kassie Neou and Jeffrey C. Gallup, 'Field Report Conducting Cambodia's Elections', Journal of Democracy, April 1999, pp. 152-64, described 'an administrative triumph, political failure'. Despite their disappointment with the electoral process for resolving underlying political conflicts, they saw the election as a 'necessary stage in the country's democratic development', which had strengthened the civil society. Another assessment of the 1998 election experience, Asian Monitoring Network Conference was published by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1-2 October 1998. It included commentary from eight election-monitoring organizations in relation to various elements of their recent role and future obstacles, as well as opportunities such as a regional organization and commitment. In January 1999, the NDI and the International Republication Institute (IRI) published a detailed and documented volume entitled, The July 26, 1998 Cambodian National Assembly Elections, which called for a more cohesive international response to the climate of impurity still prevailing in Cambodia. The level of violence during the 1998 election was, thanks to the Khmer Rouge's passivity, lower than in 1993.
5. A sober assessment of the experience of the National Election Commission of Cambodia in the 1998 election by Kassie Neou and Jeffrey C. Gallup, 'Field Report Conducting Cambodia's Elections', Journal of Democracy, April 1999, pp. 152-64, described 'an administrative triumph, political failure'. Despite their disappointment with the electoral process for resolving underlying political conflicts, they saw the election as a 'necessary stage in the country's democratic development', which had strengthened the civil society. Another assessment of the 1998 election experience, Asian Monitoring Network Conference was published by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1-2 October 1998. It included commentary from eight election-monitoring organizations in relation to various elements of their recent role and future obstacles, as well as opportunities such as a regional organization and commitment. In January 1999, the NDI and the International Republication Institute (IRI) published a detailed and documented volume entitled, The July 26, 1998 Cambodian National Assembly Elections, which called for a more cohesive international response to the climate of impurity still prevailing in Cambodia. The level of violence during the 1998 election was, thanks to the Khmer Rouge's passivity, lower than in 1993.
6. See M. Brown and J. J. Zasloff, Cambodia Confounds the Peacemakers, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1998, ch. 7, for an account of the composition of the 1993 Cambodia constitution.
7. Memorandum, IRI-NDI, Terms of Reference for Cambodia Election Assessment Mission', 15 July 1998, p. 2.
8. These pretenders include his renegade son Prince Chakrapong, who tried in 1993 to lead break away provinces and form a separatist state.
9. Cf. 'PR firm finds it tough to sell CPP's softer side', Phnom Penh Post, November 13-26 1998, p. 1.
10. Eric Paper and K. Dupont, 'Sirivuddh urges green light for Hun Sen', Phnom Penh Post, 13-26 November 1998, p. 1.